James wrote:

>Ian K <omega_2_1 <at> yahoo.ca> writes:
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>>Hi there.
>>My new laptop (Toshiba A70) is seriously weirding me out.
>>It seems to be turning off (randomly?) while in KDE. I cannot
>>distinguish any patterns uptime-wise, nor is it an actual power
>>failure. 
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>I just had this idetical problem with a Clevo (2.8GHz) p4 portable,
>with a 2.6.11-gento-r11 kernel.
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>I built a new kernel on 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 and the problem has disappeared.
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>I'm too busy to look at the diffs between the .config files, but, if
>you want them, I'll send them to you. I'm quite certain it was something
>in the kernel, acpi would be my guess..... Building a new kernel, and 
>selecting everything from scratch did the trick. The weird thing is 
>I run 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 on several other machines, and had no problem.
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>James
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Oh yes, I should also note that this seems to only happen in KDE,
not XFCE or FluxBox. I perosnally dont care for GNOME so I haven't
tried it. But I did notice that when I briefly had Ubuntu on this laptop,
I did not have these issues. Is KDE the culprit?
Thanks!

PS>> With those temperatures, I do have all available options under
ACPI enabled, however, GKrellm2 says in the info tab that no such
sensors were found. I am also on Kernel 2.6.13-rc1-mm1. Is that
too bleeding edge? :)